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**** "EXECUTIVE DEFERENCE OR LEGISLATIVE CONSTRAINT? COMMITTEE FOUNDATIONS OF CONFIRMATION DELAY FOR U.S. EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPOINTMENTS" [KRAUSE & BYERS] ****

 


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**** ADDRESS JPIPE REVIEWER ISSUES & QUERIES REPORTED IN THE RESPONSE DOCUMENT [AND BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED IN A FOOTNOTE OF THE REVISED MANUSCRIPT] ***** 



*** REVIEWER # 3 --  ITEM # 3 (R3 #3): ANALYZE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EXPEDITIOUS AND PROTRACTED COMMITTEE DELAY NOMINEES IN (1) SENATE FLOOR STAGE NOMINATION DELAY & (2) CONFIRMATION RATES ***


** CREATE EXPEDITIOUS COMMITTEE BINARY INDICATOR TO CONDUCT MEAN DIFFERENCES TESTS **
 
* First, evaluate EDF of legvet2 (Committee Confirmation Delay outcome duration variable -- original format with "0" values) both including and omitting unconfirmed executive nominees * 

sum  legvet2, detail
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sum  legvet2 if confirmbinary==1, detail

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* Second, create Expeditious Committee Delay binary indicator (treating 2nd and 3rd Quartiles as missing data for purposes of this exercise comparing expeditious versus protracted executive nominee delay at the committee stage of the confirmation process) * 

gen exped_commstage_totnom = 1 if legvet2<30
replace exped_commstage_totnom = 0 if legvet2>113
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tab exped_commstage_totnom
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gen exped_commstage_confnom = 1 if legvet2<29
replace exped_commstage_confnom = 0 if legvet2>93
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tab exped_commstage_confnom
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* FIRST TESTS: Compute difference of Means (t-tests) to evaluate whether the Senate Floor Confirmation Delay differs between Expeditious versus Protracted Confirmation Delay Executive Nominees *

ttest polvet2, by(exped_commstage_totnom) unequal welch
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ttest polvet2 if confirmbinary==1, by(exped_commstage_confnom) unequal welch
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* SECOND TESTS: Compute difference of Means (t-tests) to evaluate whether the (Successful) Confirmation Rates differs between Expeditious versus Protracted Confirmation Delay Executive Nominees *
* NOTE: THIS MUST BE COMPUTED USING FULL SAMPLE OF EXECUTIVE NOMINEES *

ttest confirmbinary, by(exped_commstage_totnom) unequal welch
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* THIRD TESTS: CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF COMMITTEE DELAY AND SENATE FLOOR DELAY UNDER VARIOUS CONDIITIONS *

* Overall Committee Delay [Full Sample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 

* Overall Committee Delay [Confirmed Subsample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 if confirmbinary==1

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* Expeditious Committee Delay [Full Sample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 if exped_commstage_totnom==1
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* Protracted Committee Delay [Full Sample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 if exped_commstage_totnom==0

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* Expeditious Committee Delay [Confirmed Subsample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 if confirmbinary==1 & exped_commstage_totnom==1
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* Protracted Committee Delay [Confirmed Subsample] 
correlate legvet2 polvet2 if confirmbinary==1 & exped_commstage_totnom==0
 

 
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